PNBC 2012 ANNUAL SESSION RESOLUTIONS (FINALIZED)

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Contact: Rev. Kip Banks (3010-520-6223)

Memphis, TN August, 9 2012 – Today, delegates to the 51st Annual Convention of the Progressive National Baptist Convention, Inc. (PNBC) adopted several policy resolutions calling on its members to an agenda of social justice and advocating on behalf of the least members of our society.

Dr. Carroll A. Baltimore, Sr., President of the convention said, “we are the convention of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther, King, Jr. and it is our goal to keep his prophetic legacy of service to the least, the lost and the left behind alive.”

A highlight of the convention was a march to the Lorraine Motel and National Civil Rights Museum, the site at which Dr. King was martyred as he was engaged in an effort to aid Memphis sanitation workers.  The convention adopted a resolutions honoring the role of the sanitation workers in the civil right movement and calling upon state legislatures to protect union collective bargaining rights.   “Today we are struggling with many of the same issues, that Dr. King struggled more than 40 years ago,” said Dr. Ralph Canty the convention’s Interim General Secretary.

Canty also said, “It is our goal to take public policy from the pulpit to the pews, from the pews to the people and from the people to the polls this November.”  Indeed the convention adopted a number of action oriented resolutions including resolutions calling for an end to voter intimidation and disenfranchisement, the need to stop discrimination against Muslim and Muslim looking Americans and to ban assault weapons.  A copy of the resolutions follows.

PNBC RESOLUTIONS 2012 FINAL COPY

For more information about the resolutions and or the Progressive National Baptist Convention, Inc. please contact Rev. Kip Banks at 301-520-6223.

 

The Progressive National Baptist Convention Incorporated is a vital Baptist denomination of more than 2,000 churches with a total membership of 2.5 million.

 

 

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PNBC 2012 RESOLUTIONS APPROVED AND WILL BE POSTED

The 51st Annual Session of the PNBC is completing here in Memphis. On yesterday, the Convention approved a list of Resolutions and the complete, finalized copy will be posted here by Monday morning.

Please check back to this space for more information.

PRESIDENT’S NIGHT

President Dr. Carroll A. Baltimore, Sr. Is addressing the body of PNBC for his 2nd Annual Address.

DID WE MISS ANYTHING IN OUR RESOLUTIONS?

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PROPOSED RESOLUTION # 25 – DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. ADVOCACY DAY

 

25. PNBC MLK ADVOCACY DAY

WHEREAS on April 6 marks the anniversary of the assignation of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.; AND

 WHEREAS on April 6, 2011, the PNBC president, his cabinet and members of PNBC participated in a day on Capital Hill with briefings, training and visits to Senate and House members; AND

 

WHEREAS the Advocacy Day on the Hill provided an opportunity for members of Congress and their staffers to be introduced to the leadership of PNBC and receive information on priority concerns by the Convention and its members;

 

BE IT THEREFORE RESOLVED that the PROGRESSIVE NATIONAL BAPTIST CONVENTION, INC. create an annual Day of Advocacy on or around April 6 to include visits by member churches to any and all public servants at the community, city, county, state and federal level starting in 2013. 

 

 

PROPOSED RESOLUTION # 24 – C-TAC

24. Resolution on Joining the Coalition to Transform Advance Care (C-TAC)

WHEREAS, the Coalition to Transform Advanced Care (C-TAC) is a national partnership of

organizations and individuals from all walks of life – a non-partisan group of patient and consumer advocacy groups, health care professionals and providers, private sector

stakeholders, faith-based organizations, and health care payers – committed to ensuring that

all people with advanced illness receive high-quality, coordinated, and compassionate care consistent with their personal goals and values; and

 

WHEREAS, Advanced illness occurs when one or more conditions become serious enough that general health and functioning decline, treatment begins to lose its effect, and quality of life increasingly becomes the focus of care – a process that continues to the end of life; and

WHEREAS, as C-TAC works to transform advanced illness care in the U.S., the Coalition is united by principles that empower people and help them to make their own health-care decisions to make your own decisions, have access to a comprehensive set of health care and social services and honor a person’s dignity.

 

WHEREAS, the interfaith community has a critical role in addressing the spiritual needs of patients and families experiencing advanced illness; and

 

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED THAT PNBC join C-TAC’s and support its mission and vision which resonates with the faith community’s goals and objectives to provide for the human welfare.